Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-10-07
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CITY AND VICINITY.


is sold for half the old rate there is no ex-
cuse for any family in Northern Vermont
being without its weekly visits.
The workmen commenced yesterday
upon he steel work in the new jail
The steamer Vermont will make her
asst trip for the season on Saturday
October S.
The orb Of night is at present the hunt
er's moon" and it is about all that many
of the nimrods get during the hunting
season.
Work on the new steamer Chateaugay
is progressing rapidly and it is expected
she will be ready to be launched within
few weeks.
The 18th annual reunion OF the First
Vermont cavalry regiment will be held at
Brattleboro, the 18th inst, the day pre-
ceding the Vermont officers reunion.
A Burlington shipper has recently pur-
chased some 50 tons of maple sugar at
points between St. Adams and Bethel,
and has quite quantity at the former
place now awaiting shipment.
f. +. Brownell was offered $4,000 for his
wellknown three ear-old chestnut colt
and $500 for Alcman, a two-year old bay
colt while absent at Boston the present
week. Both offers were refused, however.
The Champlain Transportation com
pany report that the travel has been much
he4iver the present season on both lakes
than last,up to September, which has been
Hmuch colder month than last year, the
travel, of course, being much affected by
it.
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for Boston ON their way to California
where they will make their future home.
Mr.. Storrs has been in business in this
city for % years. Mr.. and Mrs. Storrs
carry with them many good wishes for
their future prosperity.
There was quite a gathering of the
faithful here Friday, the leading lights
being Hiram Atkins and 5. c. Shurtleff
of Montpelier w. H. II. Bingham Of
Stowe, Waldo Brigham of Hyde Park,
T. II. Chubb OF Post Mills. The last
named was accompanied by Mrs. Chubb
and daughter.
Read the new story, by Walter Besant
the great English writer, in this number
The owners of the Scud which sailed
against the Burlington yachts at St,
Johns last year have just purchased the
Yacht Lulu from l.. G. Grant for $3.50
She is to remain here this winter and be
taken TO Montreal the first of next season
The Burlington Athletic association are
preparing to give series of athletic en-
tertainments the coming season. They
expect TO hold the first one in about 10
days, when the principal attraction will
hot, t,.rn frp,
Delaware.
During the present month Venus. Sat
urn, Mars and Neptune are morning stars
and Jupiter, Uranus and Mercury even
ing stars. October is honored with the
advent of two full moons, the one having
occurred on the LIST, at Ion. Am. p, m
and the other occurring on the 3lst, at IN.
3lm. p. m.
The annual meeting of the Howard Il, p
Lief society was held Wednesday afternoon
at the residence of Mrs. w. Carpenter and
the following officers We're reelected for
the ensuing year President, Mrs. +. NJ.
Clapp; vice-presdent Mrs. Ira p. Rus
sell secretary. Miss X. a. Hagar; treas
urer, Mrs Walter Carpenter.
The Weekly Free Press from
this date is reduced one haiti
isnOw only ONE DOLLAR IA
year.
There was "a game of ball at Athletic
Park yesterday afternoon between the
t,dmunds nine of Essex junction and il
picked nine from here. For the first few
innings the home team held the visitors
down, but in the latter part of the game
they became somewhat ratified and the
latter beat them by small score.
The Burlington and Lamoille engine
William Hale hasjust been thoroughly re-
paired at the railroad shops here and is
now nearly as good as new. She has been
changed from diamond stack to a straight
stack of the latest kind and has a new
kind of brake designed by Master Me
chanic +. Ct. Brownell, which is expected
To be great improvement over the ordin-
AIRY arrangement.
The Vermont branch of the Woman's
Auxiliary to the Board of Missions of the
Protestant Episcopal church, will meet at
Bellows Falls, Tuesday and Wednesday,
October II and II. 1t is expected that
Bishops Walker of the missionary dis
trict of North Dakota, and Huntington
of Central New York will be present and
address the meeting.
William d. Wilson, Grand Master OF
odd Fellows, has issued Il proclamation
calling on the subordinate lodges Of the
jurisdiction of Vermont to observe Octo-
her 20 AS the anniversary of the death OF
Homas Wilder, the founder of the order
IN the United States, and engage in appro-
pirate memorial exercises respecting their
deceased members
Herr Paulus, the srea' story, by Walter
Besant, the English novelist, will inter
est every reader.
Five empty pocketboolis We're found on
the fair grounds after the recent fair,
where they had evidently been thrown
after having been rihed of their contents.
This was the first intimation re